"I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school."

-- Alexander Haig

#School Quotes #Warrior Quotes #Years Quotes

“I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.”
“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”
“Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.”
“friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.”
“I am not in a bad mood. Everyone is just.. annoying.”
“It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment”

Source : "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.
“When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.”
“Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.”

Source : Jonathan Kellerman (2007). “Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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